Mazmanian Gallery

Audrey Kali
Existential Bugs: A Crisis of Compassion, Conscience, and Creativity
Exhibition: September 2 - 26, 2025
Artist Talk at the Ecumenical Center on September 16, 3:30-4:20 p.m., followed by a reception at the gallery from 4:30-5:20 p.m.

Mazmanian Gallery is pleased to present Existential Bugs: A Crisis of Compassion, Conscience, and Creativity, an exhibition of photographs by Audrey Kali. Using macrophotography, Kali photographs insects up-close, creating stunning and highly detailed images that showcase the visual wonders of these small creatures. Seeking to open dialogue about environmental sustainability, Kali believes “that people can’t conceptually embrace the importance of conserving insects until they embrace an appreciation for the insects as individual beings of exquisite design and beauty.” 

Shift – Space – Return 
Exhibition: October 1 - 31, 2025
Reception: Monday October 6, 5:30-7:30pm

Mazmanian Gallery is pleased to present Shift – Space – Return, a group exhibition of five artists who delve into the depths of language and art. Shift, space, and return, all keys on the keyboard, also reference actions and metaphors that relate to the work in the show - shifting perception, creating and inhabiting visual and physical space, and the ways we return to ourselves and our histories. Curated out of our open call for artists based in Framingham, Ileana Doble Hernandez, Mary Kostman, Janet Montecalvo, Alice Ridley, and David Roane each use language in a unique way that connects directly to their message and their medium. With paint, print, collage, and paper, communication is made visual. This open call was curated by students Marcus Falcao, Eliza Gaston, and faculty Ellie Krakow, Yumi Park Huntington, and Keri Straka.

James E. Ransome 
Swiacki Children’s Literature Festival Exhibition 
Exhibition: November 5 - December 8, 2025 
Swiacki Children’s Literature Festival: Thursday November 6, 3-9pm, with gallery reception 3:30-5pm

In conjunction with the Swiacki Children’s Literature Festival, Mazmanian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of illustrations by James E. Ransome. Ransome is a highly celebrated illustrator who has received numerous awards including the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, IBBY Honor Award, ALA Notable Book award, The Simon Wiesenthal Museum of Tolerance award. Several of his books have been featured on Reading Rainbow. Ransome has also exhibited works in group and solo shows throughout the country. 

Ransome will be on campus for the Swiacki Children’s Literature Festival, which is a day-long, annual celebration of children’s books featuring renowned authors and illustrators. For full festival details, including schedule and admission fees, visit: https://www.framingham.edu/events/2025-swiacki-childrens-literature-festival

2026: Annual Juried Student Exhibition
Exhibition: January 20 - February 19, 2026
Reception: Tuesday, February 3rd, 4:30-6pm

Each year Mazmanian Gallery invites an outside juror to curate an exhibition of Framingham State University student artwork. This is a wonderful opportunity to see the breadth of creativity on our campus. Students from all majors are encouraged to apply. This year’s Juror is Judd Schiffman.

Judd Schiffman
Exhibition: February 25 - April 1, 2026
Artist Talk Monday March 23, 3pm in the Alumni Room
With Reception to follow at the gallery from 4:30-6pm

Mazmanian Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of ceramic art by Judd Schiffman. Playful and narrative, his wall hung ceramic sculptures “are a psychedelic concoction of lived and imagined experiences that ponder the power of personal rites of passage… and explore themes of masculinity, discovery of self, sexuality, and family, and all the nuanced guilt, confusion, and elation that exist in tandem.”

Capstone Shows
April 6 - May 8, 2025
Exhibition One, April 8-14 with a Reception on April 14, 4:30-6pm

Exhibition Two, April 21-28, with a Reception on April 28, 4:30-6pm

Exhibition Three, May 2-8, with a Reception on May 5, 4:30-6pm

Students in the department of Art, Design, & Art History at Framingham State University are immersed in a collaborative, innovative and interdisciplinary learning environment which focuses on academic excellence in the areas of visual art, design, history, and art education. As part of a liberal arts institution, the faculty encourages hybrid and tangential relations with other fields as a way of aiding the student in identifying the most effective way to articulate their individual vision. The program is structured to help students to pursue creative endeavors while also imparting specific skills appropriate to the various disciplines. Students who graduate with a degree in Studio Art select a concentration from Ceramics, Graphic Design, Illustration, Painting, Photography, Printmaking or Sculpture.

The Capstone Experience in the Department of Art, Design, & Art History is designed to support students to work intensively on creating a cohesive body of work in their chosen concentration. Through their final year of study, students receive feedback on this work from their peers, faculty, and professionals in the field. The degree culminates with a public exhibition in Mazmanian Gallery.

2024-25

• Reciprocity, February 26 - April 5, 2025
• 2025 Juried Student Show, juried by David Roane, Artist and Educator, Noble and Greenough School
• Duncan Tonatiuh: Codices, Past and Present, November 6 - December 11, 2024
• Cathy Della Lucia: Drawing in H Mart, September 4 – Oct 25, 2024

2023-24

• Lisa Iglesias: Chivalry Timbers, February 27 – April 5, 2024
• 2024 Juried Student Show, juried by Cathy Della Lucia, Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Boston College
• Ekua Holmes: Black is a Rainbow Color, October 30-December 12, 2023
• Susan Metrican: No Head No Tail, September 13 – October 20, 2023

2022-23

• Record Keeper: Paul Briggs, Elshafei Dafalla, Megumi Naitoh, and Adero Willard, February 15 - March 10, 2023
• 2023 Juried Student Show, juried by Soe Lin Post, Director of Design at Wellesley College
• Framingham Photography: Robert Alter, Ashley McDowell, and Leslie Starobin, November 15 - December 11, 2023
• Raul the Third, October 11 - November 4, 2022
• Soe Lin Post: Typosonic, September 2 - 30, 2022

2021-22

• Hernease Davis: “...we’ll have to make new love.” March 1 - 31, 2022
• 2022 Juried Student Show, juried by Lynne Cooney, Director of Exhibitions and Galleries at Montserrat College of Art
• Keri Straka and Tim McDonald: Internal Blooming and the Ancient Future, November 15 - December 10, 2021
• Sophie Blackall & Javaka Steptoe, October 11 - November 6, 2021
• Arpilleras From the Collection of Marjorie Agosín, September 1 – October 1, 2021

2020-21

• 2021 Juried Student Show, juried by Edwin González-Ojeda, Artist and Educator, Bronx Museum of the Arts
• Tuesday Talks: An Art and Design Lecture Series. During Covid, when our campus was engaged in remote learning, in place of our exhibition programming we hosted a remote lecture series.
  • Edwin González-Ojeda, March 16, 2021
  • Jessica Bellamy, December 1, 2020
  • Heidi Lau, November 17, 2020
  • Amy Khoshbin, October 27, 2020
  • Tim McDonald, October 13, 2020
  • Janine Antoni, September 29, 2020
  • Hernease Davis, September 15, 2020

2019-2020

• Gina Seipel: New World Reconsidered, February 24 – March 20, 2020
• 2020 Juried Student Show, juried by Sam Toabe, Director of University Hall Gallery at UMass Boston
• Boston Printmakers 2019 Student Print Exhibition, November 17 - December 13, 2019
• David Wiesner: In the Making, November 4 - 8, 2019
• Esteban del Valle: Which Ridge is Next, October 3 – 25, 2019
• Katherine Behar: Backups, September 3 – 25, 2019

Earlier:

• 2019 Juried Student Show, juried by Beth Kantrowitz, Independent Curator and Co-Director of Drive-By Projects
• B. Lynch: Extravagantly Absurd, November 13 - December 14, 2018
• The Illustrations of Wendell Minor, November 5 - 9, 2018
• Michael Dixon: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same, October 1- November 2, 2018
• Ellie Krakow: Mirrored Back, September 3 - 28, 2018
• Erika Ranee: Zip-A-Dee-A, September 6 - 29, 2017

Gallery Directors

Ellie Krakow (2019-2026)

Tim McDonald (2006-2019)

Gallery Interns

Erin Gemme, Eda Lindstrom and Ziyaun Zhang (2025-2026)

Eliza Gaston and Marcus Falcao (2024-2025)

Zen Crosby and Aiden O’Rourke (2023-2024)

Jen Koeller and Emily Monaco (2022- 2023)

Jenna Billian, Danille Faria De Pontes, and Jen Hensel (2021-2022)

Haley Donahue and Sam Coombs (2020-2021)

Flavia Arcuri and Casey Wheeler (2019-2020)